The Boston Bruins, along with the other 30 NHL franchises, are currently facing a developmental dilemma: with COVID cases spiking and no current plan in place, how can the NHL teams develop their young talent with an extremely brief AHL season?
The AHL is currently scheduled to start an abbreviated season on Feb. 5, four months after a typical year would start at the minor league level.
With a deep talent pool in the Boston organization, concern is starting to mount about potential setbacks and delays developing some of the team’s more promising prospects.
We’ve recently seen a few players make the move up to the NHL after spending some time in Providence, including Jeremy Lauzon, Matt Grzelcyk, Jack Studnicka; pretty soon, we should see the same with the likes of Trent Frederic, Jakub Zboril, and Urho Vaakanainen.